Cecilia Bergman Chaves: Una Buena Vida

Cecilia Bergman Chaves: Una Buena Vida 2012

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Cecilia Bergman Chaves: Una Buena Vida chronicles the life of charismatic Venezuelan media pioneer Cecilia Martinez, through the eyes of Venezuelan renown director Alfredo Anzola, and it's a memory of Colegio Chaves, the Caracas prestigious educational institution with 170 years of history.

2012

Document: Haino Keiji

Document: Haino Keiji 2012

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Documentary about Japanese musician Keiji Haino. Includes clips of live performances and extracts from dozens of hours of interviews with Haino and members of Fushitsusha.

2012

Towards a Vanishing Point

Towards a Vanishing Point 2012

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Footage shot in Coba, Mexico and the Siwa Oasis in Egypt and a found film from California serve as inspiration for a series of sketches on the notion of the vanishing point.

2012

Dark Secrets of the Lusitania

Dark Secrets of the Lusitania 2012

7.00

Within 20 minutes of being hit, RMS Lusitania was at the bottom of the ocean and 1200 people were dead. Can a high-tec dive expedition done a light on one of history's darkest moments?

2012

Myselves : The Actress No Makeup Project

Myselves : The Actress No Makeup Project 2012

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The actors start to shoot themselves after they receive the cameras. Kim Kkot-bee goes abroad to shoot her friends from Breathless. She throws parties with her friends there and shoots a film. She also has a good time with her dear sister and brother. When Seo Young-ju finished her busy life with a performance as an actress and an assistant director after shooting a film, Seo leaves on a trip overseas to hibernate. She is thinking what she as an actress should do for the health of the earth. But her loneliness cannot be solved. Yang Eun-yong loves someone, but cannot contact with him. She drinks because of her agony, but cannot resolve her loneliness and thirst easily. However, there is the film in the center of them. Though it is tough, they reveal and discover their new faces through their films, the source of their energy. There is something in the actresses in the shaking cameras; that is what they are looking for.

2012

Dr Sarmast's Music School

Dr Sarmast's Music School 2012

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Musicologist, Dr Ahmad Sarmast, son of famous Afghan musician Ustad Salim Sarmast, returns to Kabul after 15 years to reopen the old music school, closed down by Islamic extremists in 1992, with the dream to transform it into Afghanistan's first national institute of music. Determined to help revitalise his country's devastated music culture, Ahmad also has a personal quest: to give Kabul's street kids and orphans the chance to go to the music school, believing that the healing power of music will transform their lives.

2012

The Women in Blue Berets

The Women in Blue Berets 2012

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Liberia, a nation scarred by 14 years of brutal civil war, stands at a critical moment in its history as it heads for its second democratic election in October 2011. This election will decide the country's future course - towards peace and stability or violence and chaos. Assisting the UN peacekeeping operation is a special unit from India - an all-female police contingent. Deployed yearly since 2007, it is the first such unit to ever take part in a peacekeeping mission.

2012

No Place is Far Away

No Place is Far Away 2012

5.90

The story of a town at the mercy of a landscape in transformation; standing on the brink of an encroaching reality, one in which the age-old fears of the inhabitants are being reproduced. A hamlet has survived, perched in a remote location where its children can grow up and the elderly can die and stay there.

2012

Yes, I'm Gary

Yes, I'm Gary 2012

5.20

This dramatic/semi-comedic short film is about the painful stresses of an adolescent teen, and the understanding of what appears to be missing when all the while is was right there. Winner of The Locust Valley Film Festival for best Dramatic short and Audience Choice Winner of the Manhattan International Film Festival Official Selection Rimini Film Festival Nominated: Best Short Film C.W Post Film Festival Nominated: Albany Film Festival

2012

The Lark Ascending

The Lark Ascending 2012

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Dame Diana Rigg explores the enduring popularity of The Lark Ascending by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

2012

Big in Vietnam

Big in Vietnam 2012

4.57

Film following a Vietnamese director's wanderings through Marseille after her lead actor goes missing. Karaoke, beach sunrises and diaspora reminiscences.

2012

Limang Dipang Tao

Limang Dipang Tao 2012

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The jeepney route from Remedios to Cubao, will show a splice of life of these individuals, as we take one day out of their busy lives. Witness what happens to each passenger, before and after their jeepney ride.

2012